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500 Rupias
| Issuer | Junta da Fazenda Pública do Estado da Índia Portuguesa |
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| Year | 1882 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | JUNTA DA FAZENDA PUBLICA DO ESTADO DA INDIA PORTUGUESA 500 RUPIAS QUINHENTAS RUPIAS Nova Goa 7 de Nov.de 1882 O Thesoureiro da Junta da Fazenda pagará à vista ao portador a quantia de quinhentas rupias em moeda de prata |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is blank. |
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The Junta da Fazenda Pública — the public treasury board of Portuguese India — issued notes locally in Nova Goa rather than relying on Lisbon-printed stock, an arrangement that reflected the colony's fiscal semi-autonomy and the practical difficulties of transporting currency across oceanic distances in the nineteenth century. At 500 Rupias, this was a high-denomination instrument, almost certainly used in wholesale trade and government transactions rather than retail circulation.
The P#ANL reference indicates the note has not yet been formally catalogued in Pick, which itself suggests extreme rarity or incomplete documentation — surviving examples from this Junta series are almost entirely absent from the auction record.